He was
also a member of the
Mithridate and Navarre Resistance groups.He was shot by the Germans on April 18, 1945
during his transfer from the camp of Buchenwald
as the American troops approachedHe was posthumously made a Captain
and awarded the Military Cross with palms
and the Légion d'honneur

His
liaison officer
Jacqueline Bromberger wrote the present testimony as a complement
to the Chronicle of Clermont-Ferrand under the Occupation,
described in the film "Sorrow
and Pity",
where the involvement of the Strasbourg University was grossly ignored

First
published in 1993 with the support of
Delegation à la mémoire et à
l'information
historique du Ministère des Anciens combatants et
victimes
de guerre
37, rue de Bellechasse 75007 ParisThe
Jury of
the Literary Price of Resistance joined together on October
6 1993 with in the chair Mr. Maurice Schumann with decreeḏ unanimity a
special mention to this file testimony.